I'll state up front I'm biased. I am president of the Richmond SQL Server Users Group - a group Frank La Vigne and I co-founded last year.

Toby makes...

Ah - the other side of the coin. Good point Andy!

Another great editorial Steve!

My comments...

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Andy

Hi Steve,

I think Microsoft is doing a good thing with this. It's easy (and tempting) to question their motives, but I doubt their motives matter much to people who genuinely...

LOL! This is a great idea. And, because of the comparison to Office Space, I have "Die ___ ___ die" stuck in my head...

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Good post Steve. I responded at my blog.

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Keep posting about cars Steve!

I love my old '93 Jeep Comanche pickup. It's sorely in need of some love and attention. I hope to get to it during the summer of...

Great editorial Steve - thanks for sharing.

I've always told my employers "If you're watching over where I browse and what I do, please don't ever tell me."

I see managerial abuse...

Good Morning Natalie,

I blogged about some options here.

Thanks,

Andy

Right on, Steve!

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Hi Janet,

   There's a SQL function for replacing nulls. Try this...

Instead of "SELECT Field1 FROM SomeTable", try "SELECT IsNull(Field1, 0) FROM SomeTable"

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Hi Barry,

   I have not experienced this issue, but I found the following information that may be helpful: http://sqljunkies.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4597.

   To put it succunctly, it's difficult (if not impossible) to...

Hi Janet,

   This message is related to the edition of SQL Server 2005 installed.

   Because of the separation of services and components - which provide some really nice flexibility...

Excellent post, Steve.

Agreed.

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Very powerful and personal editorial this morning, Steve. Thanks for sharing.

I have no regrets thus far. I look back on things I wish I'd done differently, but - at the...